Before Liu Xing could react, he suddenly felt his eyes light up, and he closed his eyes involuntarily, and then waited for Liu Xing to open his eyes again.
Its daybreak.
Liu Xing looked around in confusion. If he hadn't seen Yin En sleeping on the other bed opposite, and there was a statue of Yehou on the table in the middle, Liu Xing might have felt that he was still there.
Dream within a dream.
Is this just an ordinary dream?
Liu Xing got up and went to the toilet first. Then he went to the yard and stretched himself. He began to wonder what the dream he had meant and why he suddenly dreamed of shouting at night.
The statue appeared in a pine forest.
Could it be that Yehou wants to celebrate Christmas? That would be outrageous.
Liu Xing looked at the trees in the yard. Just as Meng Fugui said, they were all willow trees. Moreover, these two days happened to be the time when catkins were flying, so there were many white catkins hanging on these willow trees.
Why are so many willow trees planted?
Although Liu Xing could understand that Liu Dazui had a fondness for willow trees because his surname was Liu, the problem was that willow trees were not suitable for large-scale planting in his own yard. After all, catkins can easily cause various respiratory diseases.
And severe allergies, especially when so many willow trees are "trapped" in a yard. If they take off, the catkins will fly everywhere in the yard.
So there must be other reasons why Liu Dazui decided to plant so many willow trees in the yard, otherwise Liu Xing could only admire Liu Dazui because he could withstand this.
Thinking of this, Liu Xing began to walk around the yard and began to calculate how many willow trees there would be in the whole yard and whether there were any other trees.
As a result, Liu Xing met Meng Fugui coming out of the kitchen halfway, and at this time, Meng Fugui was holding a steaming crystal cup in his hand.
In this martial arts module, although transparent glass technology has not been invented yet, crystal cups have become popular.
Logically speaking, because of its hard texture, crystal is difficult to make into a cup according to the normal craftsmanship level in ancient times. Even if it can be made, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Therefore, it is an exclusive prop for princes and nobles. However, in the martial arts module, this is not normal.
In ancient times, the difficulty of making crystal cups has been greatly reduced, because many martial arts masters can use internal strength to strengthen themselves or the weapons they hold. Of course, the weapons here are best made of pure metal. If handles of other materials are installed,
, then the conduction of this internal force will be affected.
As a result, some sects like to use weapons such as iron rods or steel bars, and even strange weapons such as iron finger tigers and judge pens! However, the biggest advantage of this type of weapon is that it is very heavy, and the biggest disadvantage is also very heavy.
Heavy, without long-term special training, ordinary martial arts masters will not be able to use such weapons for a few rounds. After all, the swords they usually use are less than one-tenth of these weapons.
When these sects train disciples, the protagonists gradually train them to control their internal strength and weapons, so the main course is to make crystal cups!
This may seem outrageous, but the training effect is very good, because the hardness of the crystal is high enough, but the texture is relatively brittle, so if you just think about working hard to create a miracle, the result will be crystal fragments everywhere.
Scum! Therefore, it is not easy for you to make a crystal cup in good condition with the iron chisel in your hand. It requires very high strength!
And after adapting for a period of time, the requirements of these sects for disciples will become how much time it takes to make a crystal cup, and this time will definitely not allow you to chisel it out slowly, so you need to attach your internal strength
In order to improve efficiency on the chisel, you need to control the output intensity of the internal force while controlling the force. The most important thing is that the output cannot be continued all the time, because these disciples cannot have so much internal force to achieve continuous output.
, so if you can't output and cut off internal energy at will, then basically there is no way to complete the mission of the division.
All in all, this kind of training plan is very reasonable in Liu Xing's opinion, but these sects sell crystal cups and other crystal crafts, which always makes Liu Xing feel that these sects are working for his apprentices to make money.
However, for ordinary people, the crystal cup has been reduced from a family heirloom to a serious cup that can be consumed. Therefore, many famous restaurants have replaced their quilts with crystal cups. After all, this kind of transparent cup
The wine glass allows you to better see the quality of the wine in the glass.
"Hey, Liu Peng, are you exercising?"
Meng Fugui held up the cup in his hand and said, "Want a sip? This is the rice wine I just heated."
It was only then that Liu Xing, who was close to Meng Fugui, smelled the smell of alcohol. Before, Liu Xing thought it was a glass of hot water.
"Ah? Shopkeeper Meng, you are quite elegant. You started drinking this early in the morning?" Liu Xing said a little surprised.
"I'm from Jingzhou in the real world, so I've been drinking wine with my grandfather since I was a child. Of course, I spent most of the time watching my grandfather drinking with some of his old friends, and the most I could eat was glutinous glutinous rice balls.
Later, when I got older, I started drinking rice wine with a single-digit alcohol content, which can even be said to be a mash drink."
Meng Fugui said with a smile: "I haven't moved much since then. After graduating from college, I returned to my hometown to develop my career. At that time, my grandfather's legs and feet were a little inconvenient, so I either sent him to a place where he had a morning drink and waited until noon.
I would send him home when the time came, or I would go out to get some wine during my break, and then go home and cook two dishes to eat and drink with him. So I got used to drinking this little amount in the morning, so that I would not get drunk and could also refresh myself.
, it eliminates perspiration and makes you feel refreshed.”
Liu Xing nodded and said with a smile: "I am from Yizhou next door to your Jingzhou, so there seem to be several places over there where we have the habit of drinking morning wine, so I remember that I have a good friend who gave me
I mentioned before that there was an old professor at the university he attended who drank two glasses of wine every morning in the cafeteria and went to class with his face red. The most important thing was that his lectures at this time were the most popular, because it was really
It can be described as a witticism! And if he goes to class without drinking, the effect can only be said to be unsatisfactory, so his students will have a schedule to ensure that someone will go to the cafeteria to have breakfast with the professor every day
liquor."
"So do you want to come for a drink? Today I arranged for Goudan to invite two chefs. They will only come to this yard when they are cooking. After cooking, they can go out and move around freely. Therefore, I invited two chefs this morning.
So I asked them to make some glutinous rice balls and dumplings. After all, the dumplings come first and the noodles come first, so there is still a lot of glutinous rice in the kitchen. You just take the glutinous rice water and heat it up, and that’s a cup of rice wine." Meng Fugui drank.
He took a sip of wine and said.
"That's right. Even if we go to Heshan County today by carriage, it will take about half a day, so it's not easy to eat in the carriage. Therefore, we really need to eat some filling food like dumplings before getting on the carriage."
Liu Xing nodded and said: "When I was a child, I often went back to my hometown for winter and summer vacations, and every time I would get on the bus and make dumplings and go out with noodles. But one time, my parents happened to be having a wedding reception, so they asked me to find a place to eat near my house.
Then I thought about eating something other than noodles.
"
Before Liu Xing finished speaking, he saw a little squirrel suddenly appear on the willow tree next to Meng Fugui.
Snow squirrel?!
Liu Xing's former roommate had a snow squirrel in his dormitory. Because of its good-looking appearance and its popularity, and most importantly, it had no smell, everyone agreed to keep such a little guy in the dormitory.
, so Liu Xing recognized at a glance that the squirrel in front of him must be a snow squirrel.
But in "Liu Peng's" impression, there are only traces of activities of red-bellied squirrels in Heshan County and nearby Boyang City. After all, since the snow squirrel is named "Snow Land", it means that it should live in
The northern region, while Heshan County is located in the southern region.
Therefore, this snow squirrel should have been brought to Boyang City by someone as a pet, and this person should be Liu Dazui.
Liu Xing carefully recalled the dream he had just had. As a result, he was not sure what kind of squirrel he was facing in the dream. Because the color in the dream was really dark, Liu Xing could not see it.
You can see the color of the pine tree's fur, and the abdomen, where the color is easier to distinguish, is blocked by branches.
But they are all pine trees.
Liu Xing had a flash of inspiration and suddenly realized that the dream he had last night was the Yehou statue reminding him of something?
"Liu Peng, I will be shy if you look at me like this."
Meng Fugui saw that Liu Xing had been "staring" at him, so he joked: "I am a married man, so don't think that I will make mistakes."
Meng Fugui's words not only brought Liu Xing back to his senses, but also startled the snow squirrel. He climbed up directly along the willow branch. When he climbed to a suitable height, he kicked the trunk hard.
Then, like Tarzan, he directly pulled the willow branch and flew to another willow tree.
Is there still such an operation?
However, Liu Xing quickly came to his senses and realized that the snow squirrel might return to his nest, so he immediately followed the snow squirrel. Meng Fugui, who didn't know why, saw the snow squirrel.
Squirrel also realized what was going on.
Ever since, Liu Xing and the two followed the snow squirrel to the back of a small wooden house, where there was a pine tree!
The most important thing is that the height of this pine tree seems to have been artificially controlled. In short, it is a little taller than an ordinary person, but it is still a head shorter than the cabin in front of it, so if you don't deliberately go around the small cabin,
If you have a wooden house, you may not be able to find this pine tree.
Moreover, there is a small house made of wood behind the pine tree, and the snow squirrel that just ran back lives in it.
"What's going on? Didn't that Liu Dazui take his pet away?"
Meng Fugui frowned and said: "There are willow trees planted everywhere in this yard. How could a pine tree be planted here specifically, and the height of the pine tree was specifically limited, as if it didn't want outsiders to find it? What if?
If you want to raise this squirrel, you might as well put this small wooden house in your bedroom. Of course, you can also get an enlarged birdcage to raise this squirrel; but there is a saying, this squirrel is
It’s pretty good-looking. It’s different from the squirrels with red bellies in my impression, and it seems to be even bigger.”
When Liu Xing saw what Meng Fugui said, he knew that he didn't know it was a snow squirrel, so he started to popularize science: "This is a snow squirrel. In the real world, it is one of those animals that live in areas where it snows heavily."
place, so they need to reserve more fat in order to survive the winter, so they are much larger than ordinary squirrels; and this kind of squirrel is quite smart and interacts well with people, so it is currently the most popular squirrel.
Welcome pet squirrels, so this snow squirrel is most likely the pet brought by Liu Dazui. After all, it is not ordinary to get a snow squirrel as a pet from thousands of miles away in the north these days.
Humans can do it, let alone get such a pine tree.
But I’m also a little confused about why this pine tree is hidden and tucked away.”
As Liu Xing spoke, he tried to communicate with the snow squirrel, that is, he stretched out a hand to test the snow squirrel's attitude.
If this snow squirrel was raised as a pet, its attitude towards outsiders would not be too bad.
Sure enough, when the snow squirrel saw that Liu Xing was not hostile, he curiously walked out of the small house, looked at Liu Xing for a while, and then happily jumped on Liu Xing's hand.
At the same time, Liu Xing also heard the sound of dice falling to the ground. It seemed that he had passed the friendliness test of this snow squirrel.
Liu Xing tried to pet the snow squirrel and found that it did not show any resistance. Instead, it narrowed its eyes with great enjoyment. This made Liu Xing even more sure that the snow squirrel was a pet.
So the question is, why does it still stay in this yard?
"It has to be at least more than two thousand kilometers from Boyang City to the nearest snowy city, so ordinary caravans will not go so far in one go." Meng Fugui said with a frown.
The snowy city mentioned by Meng Fugui, in the context of the Xinlong Empire, refers to a city with ankle-deep snow.
"What's more, the special products in snowy cities are also very limited, so there are usually no caravans that will make a special trip. Those snowy cities will organize caravans to take various specialties to nearby ordinary cities to buy some for winter.